From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:03:21 +0000

>Elsevier is an appropriate comparison. Look at the price of American
>Journal of Kidney Disease from 2008 to 2009. Elsevier took over
>publication that year from the National Kidney Foundation. Our price
>for the journal increased 450%.

Fair point, but it's also true that you're describing a very different
situation: AJKD's price went up when Elsevier acquired it, but what Chuck
described is a sudden increase in a longstanding APS product.

I'm not defending Elsevier here, just pointing out the difference between
the two scenarios.

Rick Anderson
Interim Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
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